Read This Before Our Next Meeting Quotes

“A culture of brainstorming is a culture of urgency. It's a recognition that there are infinite opportunities that can be capitalized on if we can recognize them and move on them now.”
― Al Pittampalli, Read This Before Our Next Meeting

“Culture change occurs when a transformational idea spreads to enough people that a massive paradigm shift occurs.”
― Al Pittampalli, Read This Before Our Next Meeting

“The Modern Meeting refuses to be informational. Reading memos is mandatory.”
― Al Pittampalli, Read This Before Our Next Meeting

“All we need to know is the decision and the resulting action plan.”
― Al Pittampalli, Read This Before Our Next Meeting

“This is not high school; we strive to be a world-class organization. We can't tolerate your unpreparedness anymore. Unprepared participants are dead weight.”
― Al Pittampalli, Read This Before Our Next Meeting

“If the attendee doesn't have time to read and prepare, she doesn't have time to attend.”
― Al Pittampalli, Read This Before Our Next Meeting

“The agenda should clearly state the problem, the alternatives, and the decision. It should outline exactly the sort of feedback requested, and it should end with a statement of what this meeting will deliver if it's successful. Anything that's not on the agenda doesn't belong in the meeting.”
― Al Pittampalli, Read This Before Our Next Meeting

“if you're invited to a meeting where you don't belong, please don't attend.”
― Al Pittampalli, Read This Before Our Next Meeting

“With too much time, even the most unshakable decision will be reconsidered. Arguments turn circular; the same points occur over and over again without more real information being added to the debate. More time leads to more doubt. More doubt leads to more anxiety. More anxiety makes the decision fall apart.”
― Al Pittampalli, Read This Before Our Next Meeting

“Strong deadlines force parties to resolve the hard decisions necessary for progress.”
― Al Pittampalli, Read This Before Our Next Meeting

“The Modern Meeting focuses on the only two activities worth convening for: conflict and coordination.”
― Al Pittampalli, Read This Before Our Next Meeting

“Modern Meetings can't exist without a decision to support. Not a question to discuss—a decision.”
― Al Pittampalli, Read This Before Our Next Meeting

“Brave decisions lead to a brave organization; fearful decisions lead to a fearful one. So”
― Al Pittampalli, Read This Before Our Next Meeting

“The Modern Meeting is a special instrument, a sacred tool that exists for only one reason: to support decisions.”
― Al Pittampalli, Read This Before Our Next Meeting

“We have to remember that we can never guarantee a good outcome, no matter how much planning we do. Thoughtfulness is important, but so is speed. A system that allows the use of meetings as a stalling tactic leads to a culture of indecisiveness that is no longer acceptable.”
― Al Pittampalli, Read This Before Our Next Meeting

“Meetings need to be less like the endless commercial breaks during a football game, and more like pit stops at the Daytona 500.”
― Al Pittampalli, Read This Before Our Next Meeting

“Achieving flow, the state in which we do our best work, can take long periods of focus. Interruptions force us to start over each time.”
― Al Pittampalli, Read This Before Our Next Meeting

“Real work is what moves us forward. Work that involves action, struggle, and effort. It's that output that puts us closer to winning. If the mission could speak, it would constantly tell us, "get back to work.”
― Al Pittampalli, Read This Before Our Next Meeting

“We either meet or work. We can't do both at the same time.”
― Al Pittampalli, Read This Before Our Next Meeting

“Peter Drucker tells us that meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization.”
― Al Pittampalli, Read This Before Our Next Meeting

“Great decisions involve risk and risk scares people; it's natural for great ideas to get attacked or, worse, ignored. I can think of no single great innovation that has ever happened without the presence of opposition.”
― Al Pittampalli, Read This Before Our Next Meeting

“Change is never met with open arms.”
― Al Pittampalli, Read This Before Our Next Meeting

“Meetings are the way we make change, and change is how we grow.”
― Al Pittampalli, Read This Before Our Next Meeting

“What if I end up making a decision that not everyone agrees with? Congratulations are in order. You're a leader.”
― Al Pittampalli, Read This Before Our Next Meeting

“We're now addicted to meetings that insulate us from the work we ought to be doing.”
― Al Pittampalli, Read This Before Our Next Meeting